Town Plans, Tavrida Province

Feodosiia, like its sister Crimean town Kerch, is quite unique. Its most striking features - apart from its location on the Black Sea - are not labeled in the legend. Most prominent is the area allocated for settlement by "people of various ranks."…

These are the former stomping grounds of the Pontic king Mithridates VI (known to his friends as "Eupator"). A site of naval authority (at the chokepoint between the Azov and Black seas) and antique ruins (the town is wedged against a mountain named…